STRUCTURALISM AND DEPENDENCY IN PERIPHERAL EUROPE: Latin American Ideas in Spain and Portugal.

The related Latin American doctrines of structuralism and dependency had important repercussions in Spain and Portugal, two nations of the European "periphery" in the postwar era. This paper establishes the influence of the two Latin American ideas in those countries, focusing on the moments of their greatest impact—the 1950s and the 1970s. It explains such influence as a result of three factors—the previous existence of local traditions of structuralist thought, to which the Latin American doctrines could be assimilated; the relevance of Latin American ideas and techniques to pressing economic issues; and the utility of such ideas for foreign policy. It also illustrates that structuralism and dependency were perceived as closely related, and mentions the impact of the two doctrines in another country on the European Periphery, Romania, in the same two decades. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]